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ARCHIVES TRUMA NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE" AND The U.S. WEDNESDAY, January 10, 1951 10:00 am (Staff meeting) 11:00 am Congressman Dayton E. Phillips (Former Congressman from Tennessee; defeated in last election. Called Mr. Connelly before Christmas to ask if he might see the President) 11:15 am Congressman Raymond W. Karst (Former Congressman from Missouri; defeated in last election. Called Mr. Connelly before Christmas to ask for this) 11:30 am Congressman Overton Brooks, Louisiana (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) 11:45 am Honorable Robert Butler, American Ambassador to Cuba (Cabled Mr. Connelly from Havana, January 2nd, to ask if might see the President today) 12:00 Presentation, to the President of the Woodrow Wilson Award. This is first time this award given to a President of the United States. The President was notified that he had been chosen, by Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, on December 28th, the birthday of President Wilson. Today's award is being made on the date of the founding of the League of Nations) The following persons were present: ACHESON, Hon. and Mrs. Dean ALTSCHUL, Mr. and Mrs. Frank DANIELS, Mr. Jonathan BROWNLOW, Mr. and Mrs. Louis GIDEONSE, Dr. Harry B. FINLETTER, Hon. Thomas K. JESSUP, Dr. and Mrs. Phillip HOLT, Dr. Hamilton McADOO, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson LEHMAN, Senator and Mrs. Herbert STRAUSS, Miss Anna Lord MONROE, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel SAYRE, Hon. and Mrs. Francis B. SWEETSER, Mr. Arthur LAWTON, Mrs. Louis THOMPSON, Mr. and Mrs. Huston SWEETSER, Miss Susan MATTERS, Mrs. Thomas, III TROWBRIDGE, Mr. Alexander Buel, III ROTIVAL, Mr. Alexander HULL, Mrs. Cordell BARRETT, Hon. and Mrs. Edward W. WEBB, Hon. and Mrs. James E. EVANS, Dr. and Mrs. Luther H. BRAY, Miss Gertrude NICKERSON, Hon. and Mrs. John D. AUFRIGHT, Mr. and Mrs. Hans RUSSELL, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. d'ESTOURNELLES, Mrs. Julie OGDEN, Miss Esther 1:00 pm (LUNCH) 3:15 pm Honorable Oscar Chapman, Secretary of the Interior (Called Mr. Connelly last week to ask for this) 3:30 pm (National Security Council) OFF THE RECORD The President attended the meeting.